Chiwetel Ejiofor was nominated for Best Actor for 12 Years a Slave, carrying a film in which the character’s survival depends on concealing everything he thinks, which is a performance almost entirely of suppression.
He came from British theatre, playing Othello at twenty-eight, and Dirty Pretty Things gave him his first significant screen lead.
Serenity, Children of Men and Doctor Strange fill out the genre work, and he is very funny in Kinky Boots.
He has directed one feature, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, which he also wrote and appeared in, shot in Malawi in Chichewa.
Alan RickmanMultiple intertwined London relationships unfold across the five weeks leading up to Christmas, from the Prime Minister to schoolchildren. Love Actually is Richard Curtis's 2003 British romantic comedy depicting multiple interconnected London relationships unfolding across the five weeks leading up…
Chiwetel EjioforSpike Lee's 2006 Manhattan bank heist. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Build.
Chiwetel EjioforRidley Scott's 2007 Frank Lucas biopic. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in parallel protagonist tracks.
Andre BenjaminJohn Singleton's 2005 Detroit revenge film. Wahlberg, Tyrese, André Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund as adopted brothers.
Chiwetel EjioforThe Martian is the rare mainstream science fiction film that treats its science as the point instead of as decoration. Drew Goddard adapted Andy Weir's 2011 novel.
Chiwetel EjioforSerenity is the rare feature film made to give a canceled television series a proper conclusion. Joss Whedon wrote and directed.
Benedict CumberbatchSam Raimi brought specific horror-genre filmmaking sensibility to the production. Stephen Strange has been navigating the consequences of the multiverse opening that the Spider-Man: No Way Home spells produced.
Benedict CumberbatchCumberbatch as a specifically arrogant intellectual protagonist, Tilda Swinton's Ancient One, reality-folding combat. The 8 reflects honest evaluation of one of the more successful Phase Three MCU entries and the entry that introduced the franchise's mystical-arts dimension.
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